Researchers map "genomic landscape" of childhood adrenocortical tumors for the first time

In an advance that could lead to better identification of malignant pediatric adrenocortical tumors, and ultimately to better treatment, researchers have mapped the “genomic landscape” of these rare childhood tumors. Their genomic mapping has revealed unprecedented details, not only of the aberrant genetic and chromosomal changes that drive the cancer, but the sequence of those changes that trigger it. The study was led by Raul Ribeiro, M.D., Jinghui Zhang, Ph.D., and Gerard Zambetti, Ph.D., all members respectively, of the Departments of Oncology, Computational Biology and Pathology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Read more here.